Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will participate today in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. On this cold 45th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, marchers young and old and of every race and creed, will petition their representatives and protest in front of the Supreme Court to end abortion.

To coincide with this, President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services has created an entire new division dedicated to safeguarding the livelihoods of medical professionals who don’t want to perform or participate in abortions. Federal law already says such professionals may not be discriminated against just because they object to the grisly practice of abortion. But actions by Democratic politicians and left-wing activists in recent years have increasingly called into question the commitment on one side of the cultural divide to respecting the consciences of these professionals, and of everyone else, for that matter.